The wizards are tailored to your responses and type of installation, and you may see minor differences between the wizards described here and those on your machine. For example, if you are installing in a standalone environment, the Network Client Options File wizard does not display.
Figure 3. Server Utilities - Initial Configuration Wizards
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Most wizards include a logon window, in which you enter TSM account information. During initial configuration, the environment wizard prompts you for the account information. For subsequent wizards, the logon window appears, but you automatically continue to the next window.
The Initial Configuration wizard marks each task to be performed
. When a task is complete, the State field displays
Complete. If you cancel a task, the wizard asks you if you
want to mark the task as complete. If you choose Yes, the
wizard marks the task complete, and you continue to the next task. If
you choose No, the configuration stops. When you start the
initial configuration sequence again, even after you have restarted the server
utilities, you will go through Initial Configuration Environment Wizard and
then begin the task that you did not complete. To start from the
beginning, click Reset.
When you restart your computer after installation, the Welcome to the TSM Server Utilities dialog appears. Ensure that Initial Configuration is selected, and click OK.
(Initial Configuration Environment Wizard)
Perform the following steps to define your Tivoli Storage Manager environment.
(Performance Configuration Wizard)
The Performance Configuration Wizard helps you tune TSM performance.
Note: | The wizard updates the TSM settings. To review the performance report, right click on the Performance wizard entry. |
Note: | If you want the server to be able to register itself with Active Directory, specify an account name with administrative privilege. |
The Volume Configuration Wizards let you create additional database volumes, recovery log volumes, and disk storage pool volumes. The default disk volumes are:
Three other disk storage pools are defined: ARCHIVEPOOL, BACKUPPOOL, and SPACEMGPOOL. No volumes are defined to them.
The wizards recommend sizes for the database, recovery log, and disk storage pool. You can accept or modify these recommendations, and the wizards then create any required additional volumes. The wizards are:
This wizard is not run if you are configuring for a standalone environment. A direct-to-tape policy is the preferred choice for this environment and is recommended in the Client Node Configuration Wizard.
(License Wizard)
When you install Tivoli Storage Manager, your system is licensed for the base support, which includes:
Note: | If you migrated from ADSM, you must update your license information. |
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Select the license options you purchased.
(Service Configuration Wizard)
The Service Configuration Wizard asks if you want to start the TSM server, scheduler, and device driver as Window Services. The device driver is not a service, but is controlled like a service. Ensure that each service is started, and check that the options are set for the desired startup mode and account information.
Note: | If you plan to use Active Directory with TSM, set the server to run under an account, other than the system account, that has administrative privileges. |
If you are controlling devices with the TSM device driver, ensure that it is started at this time.
For more information about the TSM device driver and resident Windows device drivers, see the Server Utilities Online Help.
If you click Start and receive a message indicating that the
system cannot find the specified device, Table 4 may help you find the cause of the problem.
Table 4. Problem Determination
Note: | If the TSM device driver status is Error, the workstation was probably not restarted after TSM installation. |
Note: | During initial configuration, only the default backup-archive client is registered. If you want to change the account that the scheduler will use, do so after any other clients have been registered with the server. |
(Device Configuration Wizard)
The Device Configuration Wizard detects manual and autochanger devices that are attached to the server machine. The dialog in Figure 5 displays devices. The left pane displays devices that have not been defined to TSM. The right pane displays devices that have been defined.
To define a device to TSM, move it from the left pane to the right pane. Move a device by dragging and dropping or by using the arrows (> and <). If you decide not to define a device, you can move it back to the left pane.
Note: | You cannot move a device that was defined to TSM before you began the initial configuration. |
Figure 5. Device Configuration Wizard
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For a single drive autochanger: Associate its drive by dragging and dropping the drive on the autochanger.
For a multi-drive autochanger: Associate the drives with the autochanger element number order as described in the autochanger documentation. The documentation shows the physical location and the SCSI element number of each drive. The drives are usually defined as drive 1, drive 2, and so on. In the tree view, the wizard sees drive 1 as the first drive under the autochanger, and drive 2 as the second drive. If you do not arrange the drives in the correct order, TSM will not work as expected. You can rearrange the order of a drive by re-dropping it on the autochanger.
If the wizard cannot determine an element number, it prompts you for one. You can enter the number or click browse... to display the element number lookup dialog (Figure 6). When you select the tape library and the desired drive, the element number is displayed. If your device is not in the list, see the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site at:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html
Figure 6. Tape Drive Element Lookup
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After you order the drives and autochangers, click Next.
Figure 7. Directory Location for File Volumes
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(Client Node Configuration Wizard)
The Client Node Configuration Wizard lets you register client nodes, specify where the backups are stored, and specify the number of backup copies to keep and how long to keep them. This wizard configures backup policy only. ARCHIVEPOOL and SPACEMGPOOL are not displayed.
Note: | You should register your remote clients at this time. After you have finished the Initial Configuration, you can install network clients on each network-attached computer. See Appendix E, Installing Clients Using Shared Resources for more information. |
Figure 8. Client Node Configuration Wizard
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You can perform the following tasks with Client Node Configuration Wizard:
Figure 9. Node Information for an Add Node Operation
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Figure 10. Policy Information for an Add Node Operation
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If you change the policy information, the wizard creates a new policy domain. Creating multiple policy domains can increase your administrative overhead. For example, a schedule is associated with a single domain. If you create more domains, you may have to create more schedules. To ensure that more nodes are assigned to the STANDARD policy domain, accept the default policy parameters and accept BACKUPPOOL as the data destination.
If you must create one or more new domains, try to group client nodes with common policy requirements and destination storage pools. The wizard creates a new policy domain only if an existing domain does not meet the requirements. For example, the Tivoli Data Protection for SQL and for Microsoft Exchange clients require that no backup versions are kept if client data is deleted. However, the default is to keep one version. You can change default policy here, and all SQL and Exchange clients can be added. The wizard creates a new policy domain and associates the nodes with it.
![]() | On a standalone server, you use fewer system resources by backing up client data directly to tape. However, on a network environment server, you should arrange your storage pools so that client data is backed up to disk and later migrated to tape. |
By default, all client nodes back up data to BACKUPPOOL, which has no volumes. It migrates data immediately to the storage pool it points to. A 4MB disk volume is associated with DISKPOOL. To back up client data directly to tape, drag BACKUPPOOL to a tape storage pool (for example, 8MMPOOL2). In both cases, BACKUPPOOL migrates data directly to the desired storage pool.
(Scheduler Configuration Wizard)
The Scheduler Configuration Wizard lets you associate clients with schedules and add new schedules. At installation, two client schedules are associated with the STANDARD domain: DAILY_INCR for daily incremental backups, and WEEKLY_INCR for weekly backups.
In Figure 11, when you select ALL NODES in the left pane, all registered nodes are displayed in the right pane.
Figure 11. Scheduler Configuration Wizard
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Click Add to open the Add TSM Schedule dialog. Specify the details of the new schedule:
Figure 12. Add Identification for Schedules
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Figure 13. Add Timing for Schedules
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To associate a client with a schedule, drag and drop the client node on the schedule from the Scheduling Wizard. If you drag and drop a client node on a storage pool that is associated with a different domain, the wizard asks if you want to create a copy of the schedule in a different domain. Click Yes makes scheduling nodes easier but increases the number of schedules you must maintain.
(Network Client Options File Wizard)
If you are configuring for a network environment, the Network Client Options File Wizard appears. This wizard helps you configure Win32 network (remote) clients. There must be a network file share that the clients can access.
Note: | To install non-Windows clients or Windows clients that cannot access a shared directory, see Tivoli Storage Manager Installing the Clients. |
From the Network Client Options File Wizard:
The wizard creates a client configuration package, which includes a client configuration utility, and places it in a network shared directory on a file server. The wizard can create the directory if it does not already exist. The package contains a batch file with the name specified in the wizard. This batch file is run on each workstation.
You must still install the client on the workstation so that clients can change the directory to the network share and run the client configuration utility. The utility reads the file and creates a client option file (dsm.opt) containing the options needed to connect to the server and back up data to that server. See Installing and Configuring Clients for details.
This wizard helps you to label tape volumes. Consider labeling several tapes at this time.
After the Initial Configuration, completes the Information dialog appears prompting you to perform a verification. When you click OK, the backup-archive client is started and a TSM Logon into TSM server dialog appears.
For further information about Tivoli Storage Manager, see the following: